scriptygoddess14 May, 2004
Not that I assume my opinion will be read/heard or counts…
Posted by: Jennifer In: Announcements
I read somewhere that 6A is looking for suggestions on how to make things "right" – that's really tough at this point. They waited FAR to long for this release – did NOT communicate enough about what they planned to do – and this release (while I'm sure has lots of backend glitz) I was still really hoping for some snazzy cool fun features that many people have been begging for.
I think its funny that some people point at the ones that don't want to pay and say that we're cheap. But they've missed a fine point. I WILL pay for MT – in fact I already did. MT was "free" but I donated money for two "keys". HAPPILY. Because this was a good product. But it's still missing some significant features in my opinion and for what they're asking for it now – it's simply not worth it. MT PRO should be the "pay" one and MT 3.0 remain free. (Isn't this what we were lead to believe all along?) (And I'm really confused by their saying that it's still a free version – last I checked $70 was still $70. – and that license won't even cover me completely.)
The second problem is that I love PHP. I have always had to work against the grain to get what I wanted MT to do, by using PHP. I waited paitently and faithfully for them to get their act together and release a more feature-rich MT. Which they still have not done in my opinion. Again, if there were more FRONT-END USER BASED (not DEVELOPER based) features – then I would have forked over more cash.
They really put the screws in on their userbase. They've been so secretive about everything (which is really ironic when you think about it – I mean we're talking about BLOG software – software that is used to COMMUNICATE to the PUBLIC – yet they didn't) – and if they had asked their USERBASE what THEY wanted – they probably would have seen this coming.
I'm thinking that maybe they're now strictly going for COMMERCIAL end-users – and see TypePad as the option for users like me. Unfortunately, I like hosting stuff on my own servers. I like tinkering with the blog engine and hacking it to do all kinds of funky stuff. So TypePad is out.
So for me – there's not much that can be done except to do what is LONG LONG overdue and start working with a PHP based CMS. (Still remains to be seen which one I use and WHEN I finally have the time to transfer everything). But the move itself is pretty much set in stone now.
